This article was originally published on Nature’s Rainbow. Tenebrescence of Greenland sodalite is amazing. This is a piece of a deeply tenebrescent sodalite. Note how when the SW light is first turned on the sodalite fluoresces a bright orange but almost immediately...
Table of Contents Long Lake Zinc Mine, Parham, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada by Jon Amsterdam 1–5 Silver Crater Mine, Faraday Township, Ontario, Canada: A Historic Uranium Prospect and Source of Exquisite Betafite Crystals by Sean Stimac 6–8 Editor’s Note—The...
Table of Contents From the Editor—On the Other Hand: New Jersey’s “Other” Fluorescent Minerals—Part 1 by Howie Green 1–2 The Canfield Phosphate Mine by Stephen Tapsak 3–7 Lake Valhalla Diopside by Bob Batic 7–10 Beemerville Sodalite by Howie Green 11–14 The Lime Crest...
Table of Contents From the Editor - 'To a Mouse': Greenlandic Aphorisms by Howie Green 1–5 Radiation Alteration of Sodalite from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan by Michael Crawford 5–12 Solarization and Cost Analysis of the Hoya Optics UL254L SW Filters...
I was preparing for a photoshoot tonight, cleaning the specimens of all the lint and hairs that tend to accumulate on them. I was using a MAP torch to lightly burn the little buggers from all the nooks and crannies (a hint learned from the Fluorescent Mineral Group on...